Pricing Finance hiring report · Fall 2026

What 107,442 US finance job postings ask for.

10 of 84on-site postings
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Way 1 · Hire

You hire the person. We place them and train them.

They go on your payroll and you direct them like any employee. You pay for three things, and each one stays a separate line: our placement fee, the agents by the month, and the person's own pay.

Free to interviewSix-month replacementAgents month to month
Hiring a bookkeeperWhat you pay, line by line · example
Guaranteed
6 months
1
Placement feeTo us, for named candidates through four checks, and for training the one you pick on the agents.
on the call
2
AI agentsSet up for the software your posting names. They take the routine work. Month to month.
on the call
3
Your person's payOn your own payroll. You pay them directly, like any employee, and you set their hours.
Your payroll
Priced on a callafter we read your posting
If the agents stop adding value, we leave and you keep the person.

What you get in the first month

The work done, a named person who owns it, and freed hours that are yours to point at other work.

The books, closed on time

Transactions categorized, every bank and card account reconciled, month-end closed and financial statements in your hands by the 10th. The same list your posting asked for.

Agents do the entries Person closes and signs off

A named person who owns it

You pick the person from named candidates, with real resumes. They check every piece of the agents' work and own the results: accurate books, and the month closed on time.

Owns the result, with control

Software agents on the routine work

The repeatable parts run on software from day one, so the hours go to the work that needs a person. On your payroll you set the hours, and you see who did what every month.

Continuous, learned from every fix
What you pay

Three lines. Nothing bundled.

The person's pay goes to the person, through your own payroll. Our fees sit on their own lines, so you always see what goes to whom.

the person

Their pay

You set it and you pay it through your own payroll, like any employee. For scale: the median posted pay for a bookkeeper is $57,500 a year, from the 107,442 US finance job postings we analyzed.

Your offerto the person, every payday
us, once

Placement fee

Paid once, when you hire. Guaranteed for six months: a replacement from our network, or the fee back as credit against the agents fee.

On the callone time
the agents

Agents fee

The software agents on the routine work, set up for the software your posting names. Month to month.

On the callmonth to month
Not on any bill: interviewing. You pay nothing until you pick someone.Pricing, all three ways
How a placement works

Your part is six small jobs.

We do the rest, from your posting to your first close, inside the month. Tick yours off as you go.

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Step
What you do
What we do
1 · Day 1
The posting
What you do
What we doSort every duty on it: what software does from day one, what needs a person, and whether anything really needs the building.
2 · Candidates
Meet named people
What you doInterviewing is free
What we doPut forward named people with real resumes, each through four checks: qualified, skilled, clear, checked.
3 · The pick
Choose one
What you do
What we do
Place them and train them on the agents, set up for the software your posting names.
4 · Week 1
Access and procedures
What you do
What we doRead your last few closes, write down how your books really run, and mark every task on your posting. Nothing changes in your books this week.
5 · Week 2
Guided work
What you do
What we doDo real transactions against your current process. The agents take the routine tasks first, so mistakes surface in days, not at close.
6 · Week 3 onward
The first close
What you do
What we doThe agents and your person run the close, and your person checks it before you see it. Every month after, the same rhythm.
Your part0 of 6 ticked
If it does not work out: first month, every hour bought back. Then a six-month replacement, or the fee back as credit.

Nothing to pay until you pick someone. Your books stay in your own software the whole time.

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Who takes which duty

What your posting asked for, and who takes it.

One posting, two kinds of work. The agents take the work that has a right answer. Your hire takes the rest, and checks the agents.

software agents, from week one

The routine

  • Bank and card reconciliation
  • Transaction categorization
  • Bills in, bills paid
  • Customer invoicing
  • Payroll records
  • Vendor matching
  • Collections follow-up
your hire

The judgment

  • Month-end close
  • Financial statements by the 10th
  • Judgment calls and your questions
  • Review of every agent entry
  • Sales tax filings

Plus anything else you hand them. They are your employee, so the scope is open.

If it does not work out

The guarantees that come with a hire.

First month money-back

It does not feel right

Try the person with the agents for a month. If it does not feel right, we buy back every hour they and the agents worked, and your other applicants are still there.

Six-month replacement

The wrong person

After the first month, a placement is guaranteed for six months: a replacement from our network, or the fee back as credit against the agents fee. Your choice.

You keep the person

The software is not worth it

Then we leave and you keep the person. The hire is yours, on your payroll, directed by you. A staffing firm cannot say that, because the person leaving is how it gets paid.

Hand them back

The job shrinks

It should. As the agents take more of the routine work, you need fewer hours. Hand the person back in the six months after the first month and the whole placement fee comes back as credit against the agents fee.

The written version of every promise goes in the agreement you sign. Read every guarantee and its conditions.

Hire, or a dedicated person?

Same person, same agents. Who employs them is the choice.

Most owners know which one fits after two questions: do you want the person on your payroll, and do you want the bill to follow the hours down?

Way 1 · this page

Hire

Pick this if you want an employee of your own.

  • The person is on your payroll, directed by you like any employee.
  • You set the hours. Freed hours are yours to point at other work.
  • If the agents stop adding value, we leave and you keep the person.
You are reading this one
Way 2

Dedicated person

Pick this if you want the seat filled without the payroll.

  • We employ them, so payroll, benefits and cover are ours. One invoice a month.
  • Every hour the agents take comes off your bill that month.
  • Month to month after the first month.
See the dedicated person

Already filled the seat? Put the person you hired on our agents, with no placement fee.

Questions owners ask about hiring

The worries that decide it, answered in writing.

Who employs the person?

You do. You hire them, you pay them, you direct them like any employee. We place them, supply the agents they work with and train them on it.

Is the first month free?

Yes, if it does not work out. If you do not like the person or pick someone else in the first month, you pay no placement fee. Your other applicants are still there, so you can pick again.

What if the person quits?

A placement is guaranteed for six months: a replacement from our network, or the fee back as credit against the agents fee. Either way the agents stay and the routine work keeps running, so nothing leaves with the person.

What if they make a mistake?

Your hire checks every agent result before it reaches you and owns the books. Anything that moves money waits for a person to approve it. In the first weeks your current process runs beside ours, so a mistake shows up in days, not at close. Your hire fixes it, and the agents learn from the fix.

Who is responsible if a mistake costs us money?

Your hire owns the result and fixes it, with our team behind them on the calls that need experience. We go through what we cover, in writing, on the first call.

Can our CPA see everything?

Yes. Your books stay in your own QuickBooks or Xero, so your CPA keeps their own login and sees every entry, including the ones the agents made. Every month you also get an hours report of who did what, which you can pass on.

What hours do they work?

They are your employee, so you set the hours, the same as any hire. They work with your team during your business day, in your tools.

Who owns the books and the data?

You do. Your books live in your own software the whole time. We work through a user you create and can switch off in one click. We never ask for your password, and your data is never used to train anything. How your books are handled.

How do we leave?

Switch off our user. The agents fee is month to month. The person is your employee, so they stay if you want them. Your books never left your software, so leaving is a handover, not a rescue.

Our posting says on-site. Does that rule you out?

Usually not. Bank feeds, bills, invoices and month-end all run remotely once someone has access to your software. Where part of the role really is physical, a local part-time person covers those hours. Check your posting.

What do the software agents actually do?

The repeatable parts of the job: categorizing transactions, matching bank and card lines, chasing the documents a close is waiting on, flagging the exceptions a person needs to look at. They do the work rather than suggest it, and a person checks the result. The agents never make the judgment calls. The software we work in.

Who is doing the work?

The person you pick, plus the people who check their work. Each one signs in with a second code on top of a password and works only inside your own software, and your data is encrypted when it moves and when it is stored.

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Candidates, in writing.

  1. Candidates for your seatNamed people with real resumes, already trained on our AI.
  2. What each would cost youFor your seat, against what the posting costs you today.
  3. What the agents takeFrom your own posting, task by task.